Reconstructing observed images from fMRI brain recordings is challenging. Unfortunately, acquiring sufficient "labeled" pairs of {Image, fMRI} (i.e., images with their corresponding fMRI responses) to span the huge space of natural images is prohibitive for many reasons. We present a novel approach which, in addition t…
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Causal discovery improves fMRI analysis, but faces challenges.
problem Challenges in applying causal discovery to fMRI data.
method Identifying and addressing nine challenges in fMRI causal discovery.
result Current methods for fMRI causal discovery need improvement.
Machine learning techniques have gained prominence for the analysis of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) data. Here, we present an overview of various unsupervised and supervised machine learning applications to rs-fMRI. We present a methodical taxonomy of machine learning methods in resting…
BrainCast predicts whole-brain fMRI time series from short scans.
problem Short scans reduce fMRI data quality and statistical power.
method Spatio-temporal forecasting framework for fMRI time series.
result BrainCast improves fMRI time series quality and prediction.
Aggregating multi-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is indispensable for generating valid and general inferences from patterns distributed across human brains. The disparities in anatomical structures and functional topographies of human brains warrant aligning fMRI data across subjects. However…
Deep neural networks have been developed drawing inspiration from the brain visual pathway, implementing an end-to-end approach: from image data to video object classes. However building an fMRI decoder with the typical structure of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), i.e. learning multiple level of representations, se…
DynDepNet learns dynamic brain graphs from fMRI data for better prediction performance.
problem Static brain graphs from fMRI data lead to poor GNN performance.
method Dynamic Graph Structure Learning for time-varying brain connectivity.
result DynDepNet achieves state-of-the-art sex classification accuracy on real-world fMRI data.
New model extracts shared brain activity patterns from fMRI data.
problem Challenges in aggregating multi-subject fMRI data due to variability.
method Shared Gaussian Process Factor Analysis (S-GPFA) incorporating temporal information.
result Model reveals ground truth latent structures and replicates experimental performance.
This study shows how EEG can be used to generate fMRI data.
problem Mapping fMRI from EEG signals.
method Deep learning approaches (Autoencoders, GANs, Pairwise Learning).
result Feasibility of EEG to fMRI brain image mappings.
Survey of deep learning methods for fMRI natural image reconstruction.
problem Reconstructing natural images from fMRI brain activity.
method Survey of deep learning approaches, including architectural design, datasets, and evaluation metrics.
result Performance evaluation across standardized metrics.
ST-GCN improves rs-fMRI prediction accuracy by modeling spatio-temporal graph connectivity.
problem Existing rs-fMRI methods neglect functional connectivity or temporal dynamics.
method Spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) trained on BOLD time series.
result ST-GCN predicts gender and age more accurately than common methods.
Develops GIN for fMRI sex classification, explaining results.
problem Difficulty in explaining GNN classification results in neuroscientific terms.
method Develops Graph Isomorphism Network (GIN) for fMRI data, leveraging CNN saliency maps.
result GIN enables visualization of brain regions important for sex classification.
Extracting information from functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) images has been a major area of research for more than two decades. The goal of this work is to present a new method for the analysis of fMRI data sets, that is capable to incorporate a priori available information, via an efficient optimization framework…
Study adapts -TCVAE for fMRI to recover nonlinear brain components.
problem Capturing nonlinear brain dynamics in fMRI data.
method Adapted -TCVAE framework for fMRI data.
result Recovery of meaningful nonlinear spatial components in fMRI data.
Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) scans hold the potential to serve as a diagnostic or prognostic tool for a wide variety of conditions, such as autism, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke. While a growing number of studies have demonstrated the promise of machine learning algorithms for rs-fMRI based clinical or beha…
We present a method for fast resting-state fMRI spatial decomposi-tions of very large datasets, based on the reduction of the temporal dimension before applying dictionary learning on concatenated individual records from groups of subjects. Introducing a measure of correspondence between spatial decompositions of rest …
A novel topological method analyzes fMRI data over time.
problem Analyzing time-varying fMRI data due to noise and person-to-person variation.
method Encoding each time point as a persistence diagram of topological features.
result Time-varying persistence diagrams can cluster participants and study brain state trajectories.
Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) is a rich imaging modality that captures spontaneous brain activity patterns, revealing clues about the connectomic organization of the human brain. While many rs-fMRI studies have focused on static measures of functional connectivity, there has been a recent surge in examining th…
A novel method automates quality control of fMRI scans, improving accuracy and generalizability.
problem Lack of automated QC for fMRI scans limits clinical neuroscience research.
method Train machine learning classifiers using runtime log features to predict scan quality.
result Classifiers trained on FLAG-QC features outperform previous methods (AUC=0.79 vs AUC=0.56).
A Hierarchical Graphical Model for Big Inverse Covariance Estimation with an Application to fMRIstat.ME
Brain networks has attracted the interests of many neuroscientists. From functional MRI (fMRI) data, statistical tools have been developed to recover brain networks. However, the dimensionality of whole-brain fMRI, usually in hundreds of thousands, challenges the applicability of these methods. We develop a hierarchica…
Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides non-invasive measures of neuronal activity using an endogenous Blood Oxygenation-Level Dependent (BOLD) contrast. This article introduces a nonlinear dimensionality reduction (Locally Linear Embedding) to extract informative measures of the underlying ne…
Noise-cleaning the precision matrix of fMRI time seriescond-mat.stat-mech
Noise-cleaning fMRI brain activity matrices for better precision estimation.
problem Denoise precision matrices of fMRI time series to estimate true matrices.
method Comparison of various noise-cleaning algorithms on synthetic and real fMRI data.
result Optimal Rotationally Invariant Estimator outperforms others in fMRI data.
Framework predicts clinical severity from rs-fMRI data using network optimization.
problem Predicting clinical severity from rs-fMRI data.
method Joint network optimization framework combining sparse subnetworks and linear regression.
result Framework outperforms standard methods and identifies clinically relevant ASD networks.
Neuroimaging modalities such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) provide information about neurological functions in complementary spatiotemporal resolutions; therefore, fusion of these modalities is expected to provide better understanding of brain activity. In this paper, …
Understanding human fetal neurodevelopment is of great clinical importance as abnormal development is linked to adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes after birth. Recent advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) have provided new insight into development of the human brain before birth, but these studies hav…
Tensor models improve joint EEG and fMRI analysis.
problem Jointly analyzing EEG and fMRI for brain function studies.
method Soft and flexible coupling of tensor decompositions for EEG and fMRI.
result Tensorial methods outperform ICA in multi-modal analysis.
Improved fMRI activation detection for single-subject studies.
problem Challenges in detecting activation in low-signal fMRI studies.
method Model-based approach using MixfMRI R package.
result Reliable activation detection in single-subject fMRI studies.
Study finds fMRI can predict suicidal ideation, but analysis questions results.
problem Predicting suicidal ideation using fMRI data.
method Naive Bayes classifier trained on fMRI responses to words related to mortality.
result Classification accuracy of 91% for predicting suicidal ideation, but analysis calls into question the accuracy of the findings.
The application of deep learning (DL) models to the decoding of cognitive states from whole-brain functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data is often hindered by the small sample size and high dimensionality of these datasets. Especially, in clinical settings, where patient data are scarce. In this work, we demo…
The application of deep learning (DL) models to neuroimaging data poses several challenges, due to the high dimensionality, low sample size and complex temporo-spatial dependency structure of these datasets. Even further, DL models act as as black-box models, impeding insight into the association of cognitive state and…
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful non-invasive tool for localizing and analyzing brain activity. This study focuses on one very important aspect of the functional properties of human brain, specifically the estimation of the level of parallelism when performing complex cognitive tasks. Using fM…
Proposes a method to cluster fMRI data and estimate brain connectivity networks.
problem Clustering fMRI data to identify patient groups based on brain connectivity.
method Random covariance clustering model (RCCM) to cluster subjects and estimate individual and shared FC networks.
result RCCM outperforms other methods in clustering and FC network estimation, demonstrated through simulations and real data.
Framework identifies brain connectivity alterations for MDD patients using limited rs-fMRI data.
problem Difficult to analyze brain connectivity alterations from limited rs-fMRI data.
method Proposed a multitask Gaussian Bayesian network (MTGBN) framework to learn individual disease-induced alterations.
result Framework efficiently learns Bayesian network structures from limited data, showing improved performance.
New method for fMRI missing value imputation improves robustness.
problem High frequency of missing values in fMRI data.
method Spatial and time-dependent regularization with a novel recurrent layer.
result Improved robustness against state-of-the-art alternatives.
As a mental disorder progresses, it may affect brain structure, but brain function expressed in brain dynamics is affected much earlier. Capturing the moment when brain dynamics express the disorder is crucial for early diagnosis. The traditional approach to this problem via training classifiers either proceeds from ha…
Bayesian model detects altered neural circuits in MCI patients.
problem Detecting altered neural circuits in Mild Cognitive Impairment patients.
method Hierarchical Bayesian recurrent state space model.
result Model discovers latent states predominantly observed in MCI patients.
Finding the most effective way to aggregate multi-subject fMRI data is a long-standing and challenging problem. It is of increasing interest in contemporary fMRI studies of human cognition due to the scarcity of data per subject and the variability of brain anatomy and functional response across subjects. Recent work o…
A new method clusters subjects based on brain networks without vectorizing fMRI data.
problem Distortion of clustering results when simplifying fMRI data structure.
method Wishart mixture models for multiple-view clustering of brain networks.
result Identifies multiple underlying pairs of associations between subject clusters and brain sub-networks.
The growing use of neuroimaging technologies generates a massive amount of biomedical data that exhibit high dimensionality. Tensor-based analysis of brain imaging data has been proved quite effective in exploiting their multiway nature. The advantages of tensorial methods over matrix-based approaches have also been de…
Simultaneously recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to non-invasively measure the spatiotemporal dynamics of the human brain. One challenge is dealing with the artifacts that each modality introduces into the other when the two are recorded concurrently, for…
We propose a novel method to embed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) dataset in a low-dimensional space. The embedding optimally preserves the local functional coupling between fMRI time series and provides a low-dimensional coordinate system for detecting activated voxels. To compute the embedding, we bui…
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were designed for dealing with time-series data and have recently been used for creating predictive models from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, gathering large fMRI datasets for learning is a difficult task. Furthermore, network interpretability is unclear. T…
fMRI is a unique non-invasive approach for understanding the functional organization of the human brain, and task-based fMRI promotes identification of functionally relevant brain regions associated with a given task. Here, we use fMRI (using the Poffenberger Paradigm) data collected in mono- and dizygotic twin pairs t…
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides dynamical access into the complex functioning of the human brain, detailing the hemodynamic activity of thousands of voxels during hundreds of sequential time points. One approach towards illuminating the connection between fMRI and cognitive function is through dec…
New method improves interpretability of fMRI decoding models.
problem Uninterpretable deep neural networks in fMRI decoding.
method Adversarial training to make DNNs robust to noise and improved saliency map methods.
result Saliency maps from adversarial-trained DNNs are more interpretable than those from other methods.
In order to decode the human brain, Multivariate Pattern (MVP) classification generates cognitive models by using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) datasets. As a standard pipeline in the MVP analysis, brain patterns in multi-subject fMRI dataset must be mapped to a shared space and then a classification mod…
Graph Embedding Using Infomax for ASD Classification and Brain Functional Difference Detectioneess.IV
Significant progress has been made using fMRI to characterize the brain changes that occur in ASD, a complex neuro-developmental disorder. However, due to the high dimensionality and low signal-to-noise ratio of fMRI, embedding informative and robust brain regional fMRI representations for both graph-level classificati…
SHA improves fMRI alignment for cognitive state discovery.
problem Optimal functional alignment in MVP analysis for multi-subject fMRI data.
method Supervised Hyperalignment (SHA) method that maximizes correlation within same categories and minimizes between distinct categories.
result SHA achieves up to 19% better performance for multi-class problems.